Surely the AI consciousness you speak of is a nebulous threshold. The guys selling AI set their bar low, because it sells. AI doesn't come up with the specific answer "I don't know" because it is geared to give answers, and thus can "hallucinate". And humans expect answers, and would stop using AI if the got a "don't know". More fool us. If we must anthropomorphise, there is the option to describe AI using terms like - the Dunning Kruger Effect.

The human brain has how many neurons? And AI has how many nodes?
Even the "Turing Test" has a fuzzy threshold.